Hello my fellow coders,
I am trying to retrieve GeoCoordinates from an Android Google Maps SEND Intent (as dispatched when selecting to share a selected location) and even after searching around and trying various approaches for hours now I can't seem to get anywhere. However, all I seem to get from the Intent seems to be a text/plain content like this:
Franziskaner Wirtshaus & Biergarten - Trudering-Riem, München
https://some/shortened/maps/link
I tried (amongst others) several approaches from:
- Get GeoCodes from Android Google Maps App (Not applicable since it opens a new activity)
- How can I find the latitude and longitude from address? (Geocoder and Geocoding REST API from Google - no suitable results)
None of the above solutions yields any usable results.
Is there a reliable way to get GPS coordinates from something a user selected in Google Maps on Android at all?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Alex
